Burnside Avenue
Burnside Avenue is the one 'express' stop on the Jerome Avenue elevated with island platforms for the 3 track line, and trains stopping on the middle track able to open their doors out to both platforms. The middle express track signed for No Service, all service local trac because it is only used in schedule service (otherwise for track maintenance) in the northbound direction by a few terminating uptown trains at Burnside Avenue running non-stop from 167 Street at the ends of the rush hours. These trains run express after 167 Street because there are only switches between the uptown track and middle track north of the station, the switches for downtown trains are only south of the station.
These terminating trains are fumigated of passengers on the middle track before deadheading up the middle track to the Mosholu Yard, or for some trains the Concourse Yard, (primarily the home of the D train) since the Mosholu yard is too small for the 4 train's fleet and the Concourse Yard is larger. No Downtown trains reverse this pattern, all run local with similar Downtown 'put in' trains entering service at the beginning of the rush hours at Bedford Park Blvd (the station just south of the train yard) or one (that may be coming from the Concourse Yard, primarily used by the IND B/D trains instead) at Kingsbridge Road, these are the stops just after the lead tracks in from these two train yards. The reason northbound trains terminate here (after running express) and deadhead to the yard is to avoid delaying through trains while the trains are checked for any passengers who haven't gotten off the train (known has fumigating a train in MTA lingo).
Each platform is canopied in their mid-sections with the ends of the platforms exposed to the elements, with white lampposts. As with most island platform elevated stations, the station offers nice views of the surrounding hilly terrain and apartment buildings of the Bronx. The station was renovated in 2008. This added more modern green and cream colored small windscreens on the platforms, the metalwork holding up the rebuilt platform canopy being repainted from red to green, and extensive renovations to the station house, including the addition of a High Entrance Turnstile by what was formerly only a High Exit turnstile closer to the station staircases.
To leave the station passengers go through doors along the platforms and down two staircases in the middle of each platform to a station house. Inside the small station house are small bank of turnstiles between the two staircases that barely fits with a token booth at 90 degree angle alongside them. Closer to the walkways along each side of the station house are a High Exit Turnstile, and a High Entrance/Exit Turnstile to improve traffic flow. From here 4 streetstairs, lead down from the four corners of the station house, two to each side of Jerome Avenue. The station entrances are all just north of the intersection of Burnside Avenue.
1-9: December 19, 2003; 10-14: December 12, 2004; 15-19: July 9, 2009; 20-30: January 6, 2011; 31-33: September 10, 2012; 34 & 35: October 10, 2012;
